Angi Cooney, director of C Residential, a Rugeley-based estate agent, thinks the nature of employment is changing permanently. It’s “bloody great” that a company like Amazon chose to come to “this little old place”, she says

Former miners at the Lea Hall Miners Welfare Centre, Rugeley. “The feedback we’re getting is [working in the Amazon warehouse is] like being in a slave camp,” said Brian Garner, the centre’s dapper chairman